Ram Dass

Ram Dass

Author of "Be Here Now."

An American spiritual teacher and author known for his book "Be Here Now," which became a seminal text in the exploration of Eastern spirituality in the West. His teachings integrate elements of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Western psychology, emphasizing the importance of living in the present moment and the transformative power of love and compassion. Ram Dass’s work has influenced many in their journey towards personal and spiritual growth.

Ram Dass Quotes about Soul

  • Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.
  • The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.
  • You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.
  • Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
  • As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul - people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love.
  • Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it’s all one. It’s one energy.
  • I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love.
  • The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!
  • Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.
  • Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one.
  • The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.
  • If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!
  • Coming into the place of Soul-awareness is coming home.
  • When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul.
  • I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. I have to identify with my own soul. And then I can have such compassion for that soul who has an incarnation like George Bush. I feel compassion. That's karma of the here. Compassion and love, that's all.
  • The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your soul and your heart-space which can be Awareness, Love, Compassion, etc… and just BE your heart-space. BE your Soul so that you can LOVE unconditionally.
  • The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.
  • I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.
  • In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.
  • We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.
  • The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.
  • And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.